Benigna, criada de la arruinada doña Francisca, ayuda con dinero a su patrona diciéndole que se gana el efectivo cocinando para un cura, cuando en realidad lo que hace es mendigar a las puertas de una iglesia. También so... more &raquocorre a Obdulia, la hija de Francisca, que vive pobre y enferma con su marido vago y parrandero. Benigna atiende a don Carchito, un caballero porfiriano arruinado que esta a punto de morir de inanición llevándolo a casa de Doña Francisca. El mendigo ciego Yuco, enamorado de Benigna, cree que esta se entiende con Carchito y se enfurece. Ella lo tranquiliza haciéndole ver que no es la mujer joven que el cree. Don Carchito indignado por la indiferencia de sus parientes, busca a Benigna para cederle todo lo que le queda, pero ella le dice: "Que la riqueza no cambia a las personas" y sigue su vida de mendiga con Yuco. Doña Francisca and her daughter Obdulia, who lives with her worthless husband, are penniless. Benigna, Francisca?s maid, helps both of them by begging for money outside a church while telling them she earns it as a cook for a priest. Benigna takes Carchito, an old-style gentleman who has seen better times and is near death, to Francisca?s house. Yuco, a blind beggar in love with Obdulia, is jealous because he thinks she loves Carchito, but she makes him undestand that she is not the young woman he thinks she is. Carchito, forgotten by his relatives, wants to give Benigna what little he has left, but she tells him that wealth does not change people and continues her life as a beggar with Yuco. In Spanish No Subtitles&laquo less